IN THE SPOTLIGHT: AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA JUSTISS

Thanks, Carol! I enjoy your blog posts—I’ve discovered some great books—and the Featured Author interviews have been such fun! I’m delighted to have a chance to participate.

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R&R:Could you tell us where you were born and what it was like growing up there?

Julia:
I was born in Severna Park, a small town between Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland. Annapolis is one of the US’s perfect-gem colonial towns. Originally the main port on the Chesapeake Bay as well as the state capital, its early prosperity allowed the building of beautiful homes and public buildings in the late 1700’s-early 1800’s. After Baltimore eclipsed it as a port, there wasn’t enough money to tear down the English Georgian brick houses and rebuild in the Victorian style. I grew up around the city, became a junior guide for Historic Annapolis as a teenager, and thus began my love for history.

Me at age five with my brother, with the braids
I wore all through grade school

My “glam” high school graduation picture

R&R:How would you describe yourself – temperamental or easy-going?
Julia:I think I’m easy-going! Organized, industrious, as a writer, definitely a plotter rather than a pantser.

R&R:
When it comes to food do you like sweet or savoury or both?

Julia:I’m more a fan of savory—meats and vegetables—than sweet, except for my favourite dark chocolate. But my real addiction is salty things, like chips and crackers.

R&R:What is your most treasured possession?

Julia:It would be hard to pick one. I’m not a big jewelry person, so usually wear the wedding and college rings that have the most meaning for me. I have some lovely books and some rugs and ceramics that we picked up when we lived overseas. I like pretty things and flowers!

R&R:If you could afford a second home anywhere in the world where would you choose and why?

Julia:Probably a house at a beach in a warm-weather area. I love the sound of the waves and walking on the sand and like to do it all year long.

R&R:Finally, what has been your most embarrassing moment?

Julia:Gosh, hard to pick just one! Maybe when I was teaching French and thankfully had students who liked me and were very nice, because one day I came to school wearing light tan cotton slacks. Two of the girls pulled me aside and told me my patterned panties showed through! Yikes! I went to the ladies’ room and removed them—and taught the rest of the day “commando!”

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Thank you for taking time out to be here today and sharing these interesting facts about yourself, Julia.

Thanks so much for inviting me, Carol!

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OOH, Rose, I’m thrilled to be one of your favorites. And Sharlene, wish I could have found the pic I really wanted to post–me in first grade, with the pinned-on bus tag rolled up (I wound up my pencils in it) and one braid almost completely undone! I think my mother shuddered when she saw it.

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